Hospice program scheduled to begin at VNA Northwest

Published 1:00 am, Friday, November 19, 2004

After an absence of five years, VNA Northwest is reinstituting its Medicare-certified Hospice program.

VNA Northwest officials said Hospice is designed to meet the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of patients and their families as the end of life nears.

VNA Northwest plans to begin services in early 2005. The program was discontinued in December of 1999 due to financial burdens of compliance with state licensure requirements, but local home health care leaders and legislators were successful in their lobbying efforts this year to ease administrative demands, making it possible to restart the program.